International media is coming under pressure to give coverage to Palestinian baker Khader Adnan, who has entered his 63rd day of hunger strike to protest his detention without charge at an Israeli prison. On Saturday thousands of Twitter users were trending the hashtags #CoverKhader and #WaitingforKristof demanding that media, and New York Times correspondent Nicholas Kristof in particular, gives more coverage to the plight of the detainee. Adnan is being held at Ziv hospital in northern Israel, where he was transferred from Ofer prison in the West Bank and according to NGO Physicians for Human Rights is in “immediate danger of death”. Read more about the hunger striker here.

The New York Times foreign correspondent Nicholas Kristof was inundated with tweets demanding that he covers the hunger strike. Kristof became an easy target for many due to one of his opinion pieces which was published in 2010, questioning if peaceful mass protest was truly possible in Palestine.

Over recent days there have been several video messages sent to Adnan by Irish Republicans from Northern Ireland expressing their solidarity. The most recent is a message by Sinn Fein member Raymond McCartney, who went on hunger strike for 53 days in 1980 in the Maze prison at Long Kesh.

Former US president Jimmy Carter’s foundation The Carter Center has been one of the organisations that called for the release of the hunger striker:

The Carter Center calls on the Israeli government to immediately charge or release Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who was arrested on Dec. 17, 2011, based on “secret evidence” and has been held in administrative detention without charge.
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Mr. Adnan’s case highlights the inconsistencies of Israel’s administrative detention policies with internationally recognized rights to due process.